The Public Prosecutor's Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) carried out on Tuesday an operation that executed three search warrants against suspects accused of being part of a militia that extorted money from residents of a residential condo in Itaboraí, in the Metropolitan Region of Rio.
The agents seized cell phones, notebooks, USB drives, and documents belonging to the suspects' private security company. The teams executed the warrants both at the company's headquarters and at the investigated individuals' residential addresses.
The investigations began after anonymous reports sent to the MPRJ stated that a condo syndicate was coerced by armed men to hire the private security company to provide services — previously, the amounts were paid directly to the security guards.
